Keyboard Shortcuts

Project

Shortcut	Action
⌘N	New entity (of the selected type)
⌘R	Reload from Disk
⌘⇧E	Export whatever the current tab shows (manuscript, document, graph, or timeline)
⌘⇧W	Close Book (back to the welcome screen)

Navigation & layout

Shortcut	Action
⌘1	Focus sidebar
⌘2	Focus list
⌘3	Focus editor
⌘4	Show/Hide inspector (editor, graph and timeline)
⌘[ / ⌘]	Navigation history back / forward
⌘.	Hide interface (distraction-free)
⌘⇧P	Reading preview
⌘⇧R	Raw Markdown mode
⌘,	Settings
⌘?	Writingale Help

Panes & tabs

Shortcut	Action
⌘⌥→	Split the editor right
⌘⌥↓	Split the editor down
⌘⌥W	Close the focused editor pane
⌘W	Close the current tab
⌘⇧] / ⌘⇧[	Next / previous tab

Markup

Shortcut	Action
⌘B	Bold
⌘I	Italic
⌘/	Toggle comment (%%)
— Markup menu	Headings 1–3, strikethrough, inline code, bulleted/numbered list, quote

Editing & find

Shortcut	Action
⌘K	Quick insert (reference or command)
⌘F	Find — in the document, or in the graph or timeline you're looking at
⌘⌥F	Find and replace in document
[[	Reference autocomplete popup
⌘-click	Follow reference / open annotation

Saving

Shortcut	Action
⌘S	Save the document you're in
⌥⌘S	Save everything

Menus not listed here (View → Highlight, View → Fixed Scrolling, Book → Book Settings…, Book → Edit Entity Types…) have no default shortcut.